Throne of Magical Arcana

In the early hours of the morning, after many magic experiments, Lucien finally learned and mastered "Starry Eye", "Frost Ray", "Forbidden Light", "Mage Hand" and "Acid Splash" "Five unofficial spells, as for the "Ring of Out of Control" that I learned yesterday and tried to cast without spells, Lucien stabilized the casting time at about three seconds.

Comparing the witch's own records, Lucien found that the time for analyzing magic, learning magic, and mastering magic was surprisingly fast, except for the "out of control ring" that the witch didn't understand and forcibly mastered, and the elemental magic "acid liquid" she was good at "Splash" and "Ray of Frost" usually take three to four days, twenty hours, and hundreds of times of magic experiments plus spell-casting practice to analyze and master them. However, Lucien spent five years on "Acid Splash". The "Frost Ray" was used seven times, the "Starry Eye" was used ten times, and only the "Forbidden Light Technique" was mastered thirty times due to insufficient analysis and understanding in advance.

In Lucien's view, this is mainly because the spell structure seems to be based on a mathematical model, and then integrates his own understanding of the magic construction process, and the model structure of informal magic is just a simple rune graphic, equivalent to a hexagram. At the level of plane geometry in junior and senior high schools, after reviewing the literature in the library for a while, the analysis of most informal magic became very simple.

As for the understanding of the magic construction process, Lucien also relied on past knowledge. For example, he understood "acid splash" as using sulfur to make sulfuric acid, but when it came to the forbidden light technique, Lucien could not rely on past knowledge to understand Well, I can only casually think that reverse destroying the structure of the "fluorescent grass" can make it actively absorb light and not reflect it. The result is not bad, but it is not good. It takes a lot of practice to master it.

This made Lucien reflect on himself: "Don't rely too much on past knowledge. The magic of this world should have its own unique features. Although some of them can be combined with knowledge of physics and chemistry, others have to be analyzed slowly. After all, The elements and rules of this world are likely to be different from those of the earth, which is specious, such as the precious materials such as mithril and fine gold recorded by witches, such as why astrology can be used to divination of good and bad luck, fate, etc. "

As for the "Ring of Out of Control", because Lucien fully understood that it was magic under the effect of gravity, it was possible to shorten the casting time to the current limit so quickly.

After recovering his mental strength with ten minutes of quiet rest, Lucien began to simply deal with the traces left behind, such as the corroded stone surface.

"The power of informal magic is indeed not strong enough. The frost ray can only directly kill an adult if it hits vital points such as the heart and throat, causing cardiac arrest and suffocation. Otherwise, all three frost rays will hit. If you get hit once, at most you will suffer from severe frostbite, and your movements and thinking will slow down. Due to the concentration and strength of the acid, the splash of acid also needs to hit the vital point." Lucien calmly analyzed what he would do Apprentice-level magic is not that disappointing. Although many magics don't seem to be strong, as long as they are used well, the effect is equally astonishing on specific occasions and specific times.

After dealing with the traces, Lucien put the spell-casting materials in his pocket in a concealed and easy-to-access way. He didn't return to the ground, but continued to explore the sewer near the water outlet of the slums.

This is because Lucien has considered that if he wants to find the black corpse mushroom, he must first find the carrion corpse. In the case that the cemetery is likely to be secretly monitored by the Church, except for the dead beasts and humans in the Black Forest of Mezel , The sewer is the only place where there is hope to find rotting corpses. After all, many poor people and beggars living here may not even have shrouds. The possibility of quietly dying in the depths of the sewer, as for dead animals, rotting meat thrown into the sewer, etc., is not uncommon.

And the witch has also explored in the sewer, first for the black corpse mushroom, and later to find the origin of the red-eyed mouse, but they have not encountered any danger, so Lucien dared to explore this sewer first.

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The mental power was dispersed, vaguely sensing the surroundings, Lucien walked cautiously in the sewer.

In the past 20 minutes, Lucien has explored several places and found three rotting corpses, which are two mice and a strange jelly-shaped animal. Unfortunately, there are no black corpse mushrooms growing on them.

Turning a corner, Lucien's eyes widened, and he finally found the beggars living in the sewer.

This section of the sewer is very wide, and in the middle is a quietly flowing underground river with some garbage. It will flow all the way to the outlet and merge into the Belen River. On the stone corridors on both sides, there are rows of rags , clay pots and other things, and several beggars whose clothes were so tattered that a lot of skin was exposed were gathering in the corridor on one side, not knowing what they were doing.

Seeing that it was just a beggar, Lucien didn't evade, and he had already been spotted, so he walked steadily and wanted to pass through the corridor on the other side.

"Young man, the sewer is not the place for you. What's your purpose?" Standing out from among the group of beggars was an old man in his sixties, with protruding ribs and extremely shriveled. At most forty years old.

No matter how worn and cheap the linen jacket Lucien wore was, and it could no longer conceal his status as a poor man, compared with these beggars, he was as gorgeous as a nobleman, at least it would not be rotten enough to reveal most of his skin, At least it was clean, so the old man recognized at a glance that Lucien was not an "native" of the sewer.

Lucien smiled and replied: "I have a friend who lives in the sewer, and I'm here to look for him." His words were confident and full of style, and he seemed to ignore these beggars, because in this dark sewer where there is no law , if you want not to arouse the greed of these beggars, it is the best way to act strong.

Behind the skinny old man, several other beggars stood up, staring at Lucien with vicious and greedy eyes, but Lucien looked around them without showing any weakness, showing off his rather solid figure and faint hair. Cold light dagger.

This made them subconsciously avoid Lucien's gaze.

Seeing Lucien walking forward step by step, the shriveled old man suddenly laughed: "Young man, I don't think you are well dressed, and you have a dagger in your hand, it seems that you have done something improper. "

Lucien was a little surprised that he would talk to himself, thought for a moment, and replied coldly: "This has nothing to do with you."

The shriveled old man chuckled: "No matter what, I can see that you have had a hard time. Since a young man like you who works so hard and struggles can't eat white bread and beef every day, I think it must not be your fault. The truth The religion tells us that everyone is the lamb of the Lord, but why the nobles can live a luxurious life, but the poor who devoutly believe in him can't change their fate, everyone is equally born to sin!"

"I'm not interested in what you said, don't talk to me anymore." Lucien said in a cold tone.

Although the shriveled old man spoke very cryptically and did not leave anyone with any excuses, others would definitely not be aware of it, but from his words, Lucien smelled a familiar smell, that is, the smell of being preached. From his point of view, it is definitely not the religion of truth. As for other gods or devils, Lucien is not interested in it for the time being. If he does not have enough strength to contact these things rashly, it will be his own death.

Don't let him talk too much, because the more you know, the less you can leave. Under the control of the God of Truth, spreading other sects is a crime that will definitely be burned on the stake. These beggars will not risk leaking information danger.

The shriveled old man and the few beggars didn't expect Lucien to refuse so simply and directly, and couldn't help staring at Lucien angrily, as if they had desecrated something precious.

"Want to try my dagger?" Lucien shook the dagger in his hand, then walked forward calmly and steadily.

When they were separated by the sewer and the dark river, Lucien keenly noticed that there was a clean black cloth on the place they surrounded earlier, with a curved horn shining with silver light drawn on it. .

The skinny old man thought about what he said, and felt that he didn't reveal anything, just like the complaints of an ordinary poor man, but he focused his complaints on the nobles. At the same time, he weighed Lucien's age, body state, the dagger in his hand, so he sat down helplessly.

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After leaving the beggars and walking through the sewer for more than ten minutes, the sound of water in Lucien's ears suddenly became louder.

"It seems that we have reached the water outlet, and the outside should be the Belem River." Lucien saw that the underground river became slightly turbulent and flowed towards a hole covered by a large barbed wire fence, so he walked slowly along the side corridor Then, looking for carrion in this place where the garbage is most dense.

All the way to the barbed wire fence, Lucien didn't find anything, slightly disappointed, and prepared to return to the ground.

But when Lucien turned his head and casually glanced at the part where the barbed wire was in contact with the water surface, he was surprised to find that there seemed to be no place where the barbed wire was in contact with the water surface a little below the fluorescent light and the water waves shaking.

Out of curiosity, Lucien walked to the side, shook, lifted the barbed wire, and took a closer look. He was sure that there was a big hole under the barbed wire.

Before he had time to judge whether it was broken naturally or man-made, Lucien saw a large black object slowly floating up in front of him, which seemed to be due to the violent shaking of the barbed wire just now.

When it slowly floated to the surface and hit the barbed wire under the impact of the dark river, Lucien could see clearly that it was a bloated corpse. The muscles on the face and body had rotted a lot. I could vaguely make out the silhouette, the clothes were full of garbage, and some of them were very buoyant.

Lucien resisted the nausea from seeing the rotting corpse, and carefully looked for black corpse mushrooms on his body. Although there was little hope, it was soaked in water after all, so maybe there would be surprises?

Looking at it, Lucien frowned, because the cause of death of this corpse was very strange, the chest was torn open, and he probed it with a dagger just now, and found that his heart was gone, it looked like It was dug up alive.

"Who is so cruel?" Lucien looked up and down the corpse, and suddenly found a money bag wrapped around the waist of the corpse, "Why does it look familiar?"

Picking it up with a dagger, Lucien took a closer look: "This is my purse!"

This was Lucien's money bag that was snatched by the gangsters, but before he could get it back, it actually appeared on a rotting corpse in the sewer with a strange death shape.

Surprised, Lucien looked at the face of the corpse seriously, regardless of nausea:

"Andre?"

With an idea in his mind, Lucien looked more and more like him, how could Andre from Aaron's gang die here? !